Job Description:

Do you have experience of processing UK and European payrolls from within a large business setting? If this sounds like you, we have a great opportunity for you!

Our client, a global financial services business based in Glasgow, is recruiting for a EMEA Payroll Specialist to join the business on an initial 12 month contract.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Proven track record in a professional and complex organization
• Ability to develop and implement on clearly defined strategy
• Proven stakeholder and vendor relationship experience
• Knowledge of UK or EMEA country payrolls
• Ability to analyse and improve processes
• Strong knowledge of employment law and PAYE legislation
• Expatriate knowledge an advantage
• Good team player with ability to work own initiative and manage large volumes of work
• Excel knowledge essential
• Shows the ability to identify and analyse the situation through gathering relevant information to understand the root cause.

Core Responsibilities:

• Processing responsibility for employees of defined business units/Countries
• Build and manage relationship with HR. This role acts as a dedicated payroll contact for the business units HR coverage and employees with a requirement to provide a high level of technical/practical advice on Payroll administration matters to ensure statutory and firm compliance.
• Input and checking of all aspects of Payroll processing
• Collation of monthly pay files
• Reconciliation of vendor output to pay files
• Processing of all aspects of payroll including Starters, Leavers, tax forms and variable data such as bonus, overtime.
• Review and checking of other administrator's work to ensure accuracy and provide absence cover for their business unit.
• Day to day liaison with clients - HR, employees and Vendors
• Arrange 3rd party monthly payroll payments i.e. court orders and Payroll Giving
• Continually updating all process documentation to ensure all are up to date and available to test under our strict SOX control processes.
• Maintaining a detailed understanding of current payroll legislation, with a proactive approach to apply daily in your work.
• Escalate and document all issues to ensure senior management awareness and track resolution success.
• Posting payroll journals and providing relevant reporting to compensation accounting team
• Ensure payroll benefits are reported correctly in each location in partnership with HR benefits department
• Deal with HR, employees, and vendor queries
• Accounting and reconciliation of payroll/GL data in each location

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 15103

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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